Blar i Faculty of Social Sciences på tittel
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Asylpolitikken i media: Konstruksjonen av asylsøkere som et nasjonalt problem
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Asylum recognition rates in the EU - Do procedural differences matter?
(Master thesis, 2021-07-02) -
Asylum seekers in the machinery of the state: administrative capacity vs. preferences. Recognition rates in EU member states
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Studies have sought to explain variation in protection recognition rates between EU member states with, however, limited explanatory power. Surprisingly, few have contemplated the role of the administration, despite it ... -
At the crossroads of logics: Automating newswork with artificial intelligence—(Re)defining journalistic logics from the perspective of technologists
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)As artificial intelligence (AI) technologies become more ubiquitous for streamlining and optimizing work, they are entering fields representing organizational logics at odds with the efficiency logic of automation. One ... -
“At the end of the day, these are just regular people talking about political things.” - YouTube as a platform for politics.
(Master thesis, 2021-06-01)This thesis explores how and why young adults in Norway use YouTube as a platform to engage with political content, and studies how this content and its producers impact their political identity. A lot has been written and ... -
Attached or Detached? Subjective Methods in War Journalism
(Master thesis, 2005-02-01) -
Attain and sustain competitive advantage: A system dynamics model of customer-based brand equity
(Master thesis, 2012-06-27)Using Vensim® I developed a simulation model of customer based brand equity based on the theoretical framework of Aaker (1991) incorporating the two way linkages of the elements of brand equity and market performance of ... -
Attitudes to Open Source Software in Bergen Kommune
(Master thesis, 2012-01-30)This work describes key elements of Open Source Software, computer history and the attitudes found in the municipal of Bergen to Open Source Software. It tries to describe the use of the software, which attitudes that can ... -
Attitudes to public spending on environmental risk reduction: the role of temporal and spatial distance
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Climate change is often perceived as a distant threat affecting people in distant places and the far future. Such perceptions could dampen public willingness to spend on climate change mitigation. We contribute to the ... -
Attitudes towards Immigration and National Identity. A Comparative Study of Italy and Norway
(Master thesis, 2001) -
Attitudes towards the Covid-19 vaccine on Twitter in Norway
(Master thesis, 2022-06-01)The goal of this thesis is to characterize the distribution of attitudes present on Norwegian Twitter concerning the Covid-19 vaccine by implementing methods for text analysis and social media network analysis. The first ... -
Audiences’ Communicative Agency in a Datafied Age: Interpretative, Relational and Increasingly Prospective
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)This article develops a conceptualization of audience agency in the face of datafication. We consider how people, as audiences and users of media and technologies, face transforming communicative conditions, and how these ... -
Auditee Strategies - An Investigation of Auditees’ Reactions to the Norwegian State Audit Institution’s Performance Audits
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014)This article contributes to theory on accountability – how it is played out and responded to. It uses the Norwegian State Audit Institution (SAI) as an illustration. The responses of the audited entities to the SAI’s ... -
Auditors' understanding of evidence: A performance audit of an urban development programme
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2011)This article uses a case study to analyse two main dilemmas that performance auditors face when auditing complex interventions in governance. The first dilemma, concerning the performance auditors’ roles as improvement ... -
Australia: fra hverdagsland til søndagsland
(Book, 1987) -
Authoritarian or Simply Disillusioned? Explaining Democratic Skepticism in Central and Eastern Europe
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Survey research has revealed that post-communist citizens are skeptical towards democracy. Despite a substantial body of literature that has researched the origins and determinants of these attitudes, consensus has not yet ... -
Automated analysis of Norwegian text
(Doctoral thesis, 2019-06-28)In this thesis we look at how we can develop automated analysis tools for Norwegian text. We look at 3 different tasks: Part-of-Speech (PoS) tagging, Named-Entity Chunking (NEC), and Named-Entity Recognition (NER). For our ... -
Automated classification of debris-covered glaciers combining optical, SAR and topographic data in an object-based environment
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015-12)Satellite imagery is increasingly used to monitor glacier area changes and create glacier inventories. Robust and efficient pixel-based band ratios have proven to be accurate for automatically delineating clean glacier ... -
Automated detection of rock glaciers using deep learning and object-based image analysis
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Rock glaciers are an important component of the cryosphere and are one of the most visible manifestations of permafrost. While the significance of rock glacier contribution to streamflow remains uncertain, the contribution ... -
Automated Front Detection - Using computer vision and machine learning to explore a new direction in automated weather forecasting
(Master thesis, 2017-04-22)In weather forecasting, automation and computing are the driving forces of innovation. More computing power and better techniques allow for faster and more accurate weather data systems. The task of detecting fronts ...